Word: abstract
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chiang argues that the Nationalist air force can do the job alone. He also insists that the decision must come soon. No patriotic Chinese can accept the idea, he says, that the troops and civilians on Quemoy must, for some abstract moral reason, take artillery pounding until they starve to death...
...Book of Practical Cats-my young godchildren call me Uncle Possum-than anything else I've ever written." What would he like to write next? Possibly more poetry, but "it will have to be in a new idiom-Four Quartets brought something to an end." Possibly "abstract prose." Possibly another play "which would be completely successful theatrically and give the highest possible quotient of poetry." Smilingly he added: "That's aiming at Shakespeare under different and more difficult conditions...
...section you discuss the paintings of Abstract Expressionist Alfonso Ossorio. In the Aug. 25 issue you reproduce two portraits: Goya's Don Vicente Osorio, a young Spanish prince, and Millais' Cherry Ripe, a girl of four who is today Signora Edie Ossorio, aged 84. Their names are almost identical. Are they related...
...pages of photographs suggesting the glory of the earth's creation. Energetically but less successfully, Horizon embraces such -ho-hum items as a spoof on wine snobbery, a mystique-ridden study of why men climb mountains. It also carries a long-winded sneer at the Beat Generation, including abstract expressionist painters. But in another article it acknowledges that Abstract Painter Willem de Kooning is among the nation's bestsellers...
...predict that history will find the abstract expressionists as dated as the fur-lined teacup...